The year 2024 has been one of incredible progress for India in both technology and medicine. From AI changing industries to major breakthroughs in nuclear energy, space exploration and quantum computing, it has indeed been a year to remember.
Antibiotics revolutionised the field of medicine, saving countless lives by combating bacterial infections.
High rates of antibiotic resistance have rendered the drugs used to treat common infections in children and babies, ineffective, according to an alarming study published in Lancet South East Asia on Tuesday.
One factor associated with IBD risk in younger people is the use of antibiotics, but it's not clear if this association might also apply to older people.
The chemical solanimycin and the gene clusters in charge of the proteins that produce it were discovered as a result of that observation.
Antibiotics had been administered within the first 14 days of life to 1,151 (9.3 percent) of the neonates in the study.
Clarithromycin accounts for around 15% of all primary care antibiotic prescriptions in the UK and is recommended for treatment of patients with chest infections.
Bacteria can share many different types of genes as long as the genes have mobile segments of DNA.
India, second most populated country in the world, witnessed enormous gains in antibiotic use both overall and on a per…
As worrisome as the AMR crisis is the risk of disrupting the ecological system within our bodies due to non-judicious…
